Bug 302749

Summary: KAddressBook promotes Microsoft Skype
Product: [Applications] kaddressbook Reporter: mathew <meta>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: jjm, montel, tokoe, winter
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: http://commits.kde.org/kdepimlibs/2259a56fdbe495a5ca716df04bf60db12b531d29 Version Fixed In: 4.11
Sentry Crash Report:

Description mathew 2012-06-29 14:47:05 UTC 
I took a look at KAddressBook today, wondering if it would sync to my Android address book, maybe via Gmail.

When I opened the configuration, the first entry was Contact Actions. I noticed that the action drop-downs for "Dial Phone Number" and "Send SMS" had built-in support for Microsoft Skype -- and nothing else!

It is utterly shameful for a piece of free software to promote a closed, proprietary network and its encrypted binaries in this way. Either some entries for common open standards solutions should be added, or the Skype entry should be removed. (Or ideally, both of those things!)

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2012-07-07 12:56:26 UTC 
skype is a logiciel on linux too.
So it's invalid your wishlist.
I will not remove it.
Comment 2 Allen Winter 2012-07-07 15:23:34 UTC 
Laurent,

I think this bug is more about promoting software from a commercial company as Skype is owned by Microsoft now. 

Ideally, I think we leave Skype but add support for other options like Android and GMail. 

Maybe we could change this bug into a wish for supporting Android and GMail addressbooks?  We must already have wishes for those, I can't believe we don't.
Comment 3 Laurent Montel 2012-07-07 16:54:10 UTC 
you send sms with Gmail addressbook ????
Comment 4 mathew 2012-07-08 18:39:48 UTC 
Yes, you can send SMS with Gmail: http://support.google.com/chat/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=106015

As Allen Winter pointed out, you completely missed the point. It's not that Skype is promoted; it's that Skype is promoted *to the exclusion of all open source and free software solutions*. You know, like QuteCom (which can send SMS and make calls), Ekiga, Empathy, Jitsi, ...
Comment 5 Laurent Montel 2012-07-09 06:22:12 UTC 
And there is api for it ?
Comment 7 Laurent Montel 2013-02-12 07:21:28 UTC 
Git commit 4861e679bcf75ca5c548ae190bc8719361dfd691 by Montel Laurent.
Committed on 12/02/2013 at 08:20.
Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'master'.

Start to fix Bug 302749 - KAddressBook promotes Microsoft Skype

Add sflphone plugins

M  +1    -0    akonadi/contact/CMakeLists.txt
M  +1    -0    akonadi/contact/actions/contactactionssettings.kcfg.cmake
M  +4    -0    akonadi/contact/actions/dialphonenumberaction.cpp
A  +43   -0    akonadi/contact/actions/qsflphonedialer.cpp     [License: LGPL (v2+)]
A  +37   -0    akonadi/contact/actions/qsflphonedialer.h     [License: LGPL (v2+)]
M  +10   -5    akonadi/contact/kcm/akonadicontactactions.ui

http://commits.kde.org/kdepimlibs/4861e679bcf75ca5c548ae190bc8719361dfd691
Comment 8 Laurent Montel 2013-02-12 12:35:17 UTC 
Git commit 2259a56fdbe495a5ca716df04bf60db12b531d29 by Montel Laurent.
Committed on 12/02/2013 at 13:34.
Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'master'.

Fix Bug 302749 - KAddressBook promotes Microsoft Skype

FIXED-IN: 4.11

M  +1    -1    akonadi/contact/actions/contactactionssettings.kcfg.cmake
M  +66   -2    akonadi/contact/actions/qsflphonedialer.cpp
M  +3    -0    akonadi/contact/actions/qsflphonedialer.h

http://commits.kde.org/kdepimlibs/2259a56fdbe495a5ca716df04bf60db12b531d29